In legislation passed last year by the General Assembly, companies conducting business in Delaware via a website will be required to post a privacy policy alerting their customers to the types of data their website may collect, and what the company may do with that data, such as using it for marketing, or storing it for later use (think a credit card number saved on a pizza shop website).

During the legislative process, the Chamber worked closely with the Attorney General and members of the General Assembly to pass legislation that would seek to provide the consumer protection the AG wanted, but not cause businesses significant hardship, financial or otherwise, to implement. Currently, comment period for the regulation drafting process has been closed, as of February 1st. The Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Unit has been working with the State Chamber to not only come up with a regulation that is easy to read, but CPU has also pledged to provide free of charge examples of privacy policy statements on their website so that businesses can copy and paste language that will cover them directly onto their website.​As those examples are released, the Chamber will provide our membership, through this space, a reminder alert as well as a link to the text.